Hi gang, I 'obtained' a media file (mkv) that has video codec of 'Microsoft VC1'. The audio plays but the video screen is solid gray. I can play this file on Kubuntu 11.10 just fine. I am running LMCE 1004, latest build.

On the MD, the Hardware Acceleration is set to 'auto' ... tried at 'vdpau' also, but didnt change anything.

this is going to take some effort... i recompiled a newer ffmpeg, then recompiled the 1.1.19 xine-lib... however, the system always reverts to the existing libxine.so.2.0.0 and libxine.so.1.27.0... is there something i need to do to force LMCE to use the newer libxine.so.1.29.0?

I think the system is using the libxine.so.2 linked to libxine.so.2.0.0, but if i try to link libxine.so or libxine.so.1 to libxine.so.1.29.0, nothing changes.. if i link libxine.so.2 to libxine.so.1.29,0, the system resets libxine.so.2 to libxine.so.2.0.0...

You can use the xineplayer that is included there as well but it is older source and there have been some additional bug fixes in 0810 Final.If you're really keen you can install the newer libxine1.2 on an 0810 build system and build the xineplayer against the newer libxine1.2 to create a more recent xineplayer.

I will be building a newer one as soon as I have time and now that 0810 is Final.

phenigma, according to the linked document, 1004 is supposed to have the libxine1.2 baked in. Im running 1004, and all .mkv files play... with the exception of those with the VC1 video format.. the screen is gray... The link appears to mostly apply to 0810.

I apologize. There *was* a 1004 version there, it's been removed. Here is the 1004 libxine2 that I built at that time, it is a little newer than the libxine2 that lmce1004 uses but not extremely recent.

lmce1004 does NOT use the ubuntu stock libxine 1.1.XX. lmce1004 uses libxine2 (libxine 1.2hg) from early February 2011 from the yavdr project. lmce will only use libxine 1.1.19 if you setup a builder and recompile pluto-xine-player against it.

Looks like you are you using vdpau? If so then the nvidia driver/video card is doing the vc-1 decode not libxine... Have you tried newer nvidia drivers? Ubuntu 11.10 will be using newer nvidia drivers.